 I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 353edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 312 pages
...Hatred. SHYLOCE, [REGARDING ANTONIO.] " How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more, for that, in low simplicity,...lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usuance with us here in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...publican he ' look«! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that, in low simplicity, He leuds t ; And, if mine eyes can wound, now let them W thee; Now counterfeit to swo Tf I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge 1 bear him. He hates our sacred... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 pages
...reason for his hatred for Shylock says: How like a fawning publican he looks! 1 hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. (1.3.42-46) By doing so, Antonio is acting in accordance with the economic ideal of the time: the age... | |
 | Philip Brockbank - 1988 - 198 pages
...characterization of Shylock. The principal moments of choice were these, in 1.3: I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice . . . He hates our sacred nation and he rails Even there where merchants most do congregate On me,... | |
 | Paul Millett - 2002 - 388 pages
...imagined from the other side, there is Shylock's verdict on Antonio (1.111.43) : I hate him, for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. The wider implications of this passage are brought out by Nelson (1969: 142-51) and Wills (1990). The... | |
 | G. Beiner - 1993 - 332 pages
...overhear the thoughts expressed in the aside: How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred... | |
 | Lars Engle - 1993 - 284 pages
...consequence), but insists on putting to Antonio. Shylock's complaint about Antonio, partly practical ("he lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" [1.3.39-40]), is partly also a complaint alxmt Antonio's categorization of his activities: "my well-won... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - 1993 - 292 pages
...clunking pun on "rats/rates," linked to usance, when Shylock airs his grievances first in an aside ("He lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" [2.41-42]) and then publicly: "Signior Antonio, many a time and oft / in the Rialto you have rated... | |
 | Ralph Windle - 1994 - 216 pages
...not eat with you, drink with you, Nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred... | |
 | John Gross - 1994 - 404 pages
...like a fawning publican he looks!" says Shylock when Antonio first enters — / hate him for he is a Christian: But more, for that in low simplicity...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. "I hate him for he is a Christian" — the line could be made to sound almost perfunctory, a quick... | |
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